[CoLoCo] New HP Mini-Note enters the Ultra Mobile PC Market

[siblog]

....And now it looks like Dell will be joining the game here soon, hopefully
they will put Ubuntu on these models

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/

-Simon

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:25 PM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> With a 1.2 Ghz processor, a 400 Mhz FSB is more than enough... especially
> considering the lightweight OS installed under the hood.  : )
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Paul Hummer <paul at eventuallyanyway.com>
> > wrote:
> >
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> > > > Today I stumbled across this new HP UMPC that looks like it will be
> > > >  major competition for the OLPC, Eee PC and Cloudbook. Though it is
> > > >  more expensive, I think it just might be worth it. The models
> > > > start at $499 and then go up to $849 and some of them come loaded
> > > > up with SUSE Linux. The $599 model would be my pick, it comes with
> > > > 1 GB RAM, 120 GB, VIA C7-M ULV processor 1.2 GHz. The specs look
> > > > good and the computer itself looks sleak and clean. The one
> > > > downfall with this model is that it does come with Vista, but that
> > > > would be gone real quick  ;-)
> > > No solid state drive or flash storage -- that's the killer right
> > > there.  Not ultra mobile if you can't swing it around...  The drive
> > > doesn't even have an accelerometer that'll park the drive in certain
> > > conditions.  Sounds like FIAL to me.  :)
> > >
> >
> > Check out the $500 one. It has a 4gb flash drive. but only 400mhz fsb as
> > opposed to 800. Not sure how important that is. I want one. Very cool.
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